API Gateway Patterns

About

This skill provides a comprehensive framework for building and managing production-ready API gateways, specifically focusing on Kong and industry best practices. It empowers developers to implement complex microservices architectures by providing detailed guidance on multi-layered routing, sophisticated rate limiting, and robust authentication mechanisms including JWT and OAuth 2.0. Whether you are managing traffic across different environments, enforcing security policies, or setting up resilient circuit breakers, this skill offers the necessary patterns and configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and observability for your API ecosystem.

Key Features

• Robust authentication implementation for API Key, JWT, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect
• Comprehensive rate limiting strategies like sliding window and consumer-specific tiers
• Traffic management and resilience patterns for load balancing and canary deployments
• 17 GitHub stars
• Advanced routing patterns including path, header, method, host, and weighted distribution
• Detailed Kong Gateway configuration guidance for services, routes, and plugins

Use Cases

• Building a secure and scalable single entry point for microservices architectures
• Implementing tiered access and usage quotas for API monetization
• Managing complex API deployments with canary rollouts and traffic shifting